10 best-selling poetry books like Red Gloves by Rebecca Watts

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Red Gloves

By: Rebecca Watts

4.20

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

An unflinching, lyrical examination of the intimate conflicts between people, and between the human…

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1. Goblin Market

By: Joyce Carol Oates , William Morris , Laurence Housman , Christina Rossetti , Dante Gabriel Rossetti

3.82

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

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  • poetry
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2. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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3. Absalom, Absalom!

By: William Faulkner

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more

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4. Voyage in the Dark

By: Jean Rhys , Carole Angier

3.78

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen… read more

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"Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes."

-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

"It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?"

-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

"I was thinking it was funny I could giggle like that because in my heart I was always sad, with the same sort of hurt that the cold gave me in my chest."

-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

"But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly wh…"

-Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

5. The Casuarina Tree

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

1926. Maugham, English novelist, short-story writer, and playwright is best remembered for his nove… read more

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6. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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7. A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more

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8. Mothering Sunday

By: Graham Swift

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more

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9. Flush

By: Virginia Woolf , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more

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10. Greek Lessons

By: Han Kang

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more

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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

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11. Riccardino (Inspector Montalbano, #28)

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.77

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Anno 2005: Camilleri ha appena pubblicato La luna di carta. Sta lavorando alla successiva avventura… read more

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12. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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13. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more

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"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

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14. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

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"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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15. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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16. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Cover of All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

17. All the Little Bird-Hearts

By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

3.80

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more

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18. C+nto and Othered Poems

By: Joelle Taylor

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more

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  • poetry
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19. Balladz

By: Sharon Olds

3.77

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for… read more

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  • poetry
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20. Windmill Hill

By: Lucy Atkins

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1970s, a single night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director and his leading la… read more

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21. Bright Fear

By: Mary Jean Chan

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more

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  • poetry
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22. Love and Other Thought Experiments

By: Sophie Ward

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Rachel and Eliza are hoping to have a baby. The couple spend many happy evenings together planning … read more

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23. Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)

By: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

4.50

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands from being dev… read more

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  • poetry
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24. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more

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25. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • poetry
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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26. The Home Child

By: Liz Berry

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a true story, a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home. From award-winnin… read more

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  • poetry
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27. The Night Alphabet

By: Joelle Taylor

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

'Joelle Taylor has a Midas touch with words' Diana Souhami The tattoo was a reclamation, a flag… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Villager

By: Tom Cox

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

There’s so much to know. It will never end, I suspect, even when it does. So much in all these live… read more

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29. The Heeding

By: Rob Cowen

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which… read more

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  • poetry
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30. Red Gloves

By: Rebecca Watts

4.20

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

An unflinching, lyrical examination of the intimate conflicts between people, and between the human… read more

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  • poetry

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Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

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